Alicia Svigals is a violinist, composer and vocalist from New York. She is the world's leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning band The Klezmatics. Svigals is the recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2013 New Jewish Culture Network commission for her new score to The Yellow Ticket. She is currently working on the score to a feature film based on Gertrude Stein’s novella Brewsie and Willie, and is collaborating with author Sarah Schulman on a musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel Enemies, A Love Story. In 2014, Svigals was a NEA MacDowell Fellow in composition.
Marilyn Lerner is a jazz pianist from Montreal. Her work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer and 20th century classical music. Lerner's original music received the Montreal International Jazz Festival award for best composition. Other recordings have garnered recognition such as Best Western Jazz Recording for her duo with legendary guitarist Sonny Greenwich. Additionally, Lerner conducts workshops on improvisation and on Jewish music.
Boyd explored the historical backgrounds of the Shekhinah, showing how the concept of female divine presence appears in ancient Near Eastern texts, iconography, and religious practice. He traced this cultural background in the biblical texts, particularly Deuteronomy, and showed how conceptions of the Shekhinah evolved into early Judaism.
Firestone spoke on how, for over 2,000 years, feminine wisdom flowed through Jewish history like an underground river. Submerged by a dominant ethic that ignored her riches and refused her power, She spoke to those who were attuned only. In our day, this mythic face of divinity refuses to be ignored. She rises to the surface, embodied and unequivocal, breaking up old paradigms of understanding and demanding our attention.
The aim of Sher-Machherndl’s originally choreographed piece was to embody co-existing female and male energies as they relate to the curious mythology of Shekhinah. Sher-Machherndl believes these elements have a constant presence in his choreography and performance, therefore key to the creative process. He was accompanied by Bailey Harper.
Sher-Machherndl was accompanied by professional dancer, Bailey Harper. Harper, a Louisiana native and graduate of the University of Alabama, has been a professional dancer for almost ten years. She has danced with several different companies including the Montgomery Ballet, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Hannah Khan Dance Company, and many other choreographic projects. Harper is finding that each company brings the opportunity to explore a new dance style, a deeper understanding of movement, and a more authentic performance experience. Currently, she is collaborating with Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet and focusing on self-producing art projects. 
Ladin read and discuss poems that dramatize the role of the Shekhinah in her gender transition, her development as a poet, and her growth as human being.
How should we think about the transmission of Holocaust memory more than seventy years after the defeat of Nazi Germany? What lessons do the events of the Shoah bear for a moment in which far-right political movements are once again on the rise? In order to address such questions, Professor Michael Rothberg considered immigrants’ engagement with the Holocaust in contemporary Germany. The works of art, literature, and performance that he discussed modeled alternative ways of remembering the Nazi genocide in the twenty-first century and suggested possibilities for an ethically and politically engaged memory work.
In this colloquium, Professor Michael Rothberg explored issues raised by his forthcoming book The Implicated Subject, which addresses questions of historical and political responsibility beyond the categories of victims and perpetrators. The book considers a variety of cases taken from diverse historical and geographical settings: from the legacies of the Holocaust, transatlantic slavery, and South African apartheid to diasporic engagement with Israel/Palestine and internationalist solidarity with Kurdistan and Vietnam. 
Growing up in materialistic 1980s Los Angeles, Ariel Sabar's life seemed a far cry from his father's. Yona Sabar, Ariel's father, was a distinguished professor at UCLA and one of the world’s foremost experts on Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of the Jewish Talmud — and of Jesus. But Ariel saw his father as a stone-age relic, a walking fashion tragedy who couldn’t get his clothes to match and refused to see a barber about his out-of-control, Einstein-like hair. Yona had been born in an ancient village of Aramaic-speaking Jews in the mountains of Kurdish Iraq—the oldest corner of the Jewish diaspora — but for Ariel, his father might as well have been born on the moon. Then Ariel had his own son, and everything changed.
About Ariel Sabar
The students of CU Boulder's Hebrew classes and the Program in Jewish Studies presented the fourth annual Hebrew Schmooze-A-Palooza! The night was filled with a variety of musical and dance performances to celebrate Hebrew classes and community. Audience members sang along to renditions of well-known songs like "Hallelujah" and heard new music performed by Hebrew students!
About Professor Aviva Ben-UrChildren in a World of Genocide: From the Holocaust to 21st Century Refugees
Panel Discussion with Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD
Monday, April 9 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In honor of Annual Holocaust Remembrance Week, CU Anschutz's Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies, and cosponsors presented a panel discussion featuring United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Senior Historian Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD. Dr. Heberer-Rice discussed the experience of child victims of the Holocaust, followed by panel discussion about genocide and the experiences of working refugee children in Colorado.
Patricia Heberer-Rice is the Senior Historian and director of the Office of the Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. She has served as an historian with the Museum's Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies since 1994. There she serves as a Museum specialist on medical crimes and eugenics policies in Nazi Germany. Dr. Heberer Rice earned her baccalaureate and masters degrees from Southern Illinois University; she pursued doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland, receiving her Ph.D. from the latter institution. In addition to contributions to several USHMM publications, she has recently authored a source edition, Children During the Holocaust, a volume in the Center's series, Documenting Life and Destruction, appearing in 2011. A further publication, Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective, co-edited with Juergen Matthäus, appeared in 2008 with the University of Nebraska Press.This program is the second annual CU-Anschutz-CU Boulder Holocaust Remembrance Week Lecture. It is hosted by CU Anschutz's Center for Bioethics and Humanities and CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies, and is made possible by the M.B. Glassman Foundation, the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Dr. William S. Silvers Endowment.
CU Boulder annually honors Holocaust Remembrance Week, hosting a variety of free events around campus.
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The 2018 Holocaust Remembrance Week is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, CU's Hillel, the Department of History, the Honors Program, the Department of Religious Studies, the Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Women and Gender Studies, the Singer Fund in Jewish Studies, and Chabad.
Martin Kavka is Professor of Religion at Florida State University, where he teaches courses in Jewish studies and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), which was awarded the first Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought by the Association for Jewish Studies (2008), and the co-editor of five books, including Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology (Indiana University Press), as well as the co-editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics.
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies, the 
Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer and filmmaker since the early 1960s. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. Supported by a Fulbright grant, Salzmann is currently working in Peru on a new project titled Misk'l Kachi // Sweet Salt (2016-2018).